Academic Biography

 Brief CV:

1964-1967 BSc and MSc Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel

1972 - Ph.D.  Hebrew University.  van der Forces in Macroscopic Systems –  Supervisor: Prof. Shalom Baer

1972 - Scientist, Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot

1972 - 1974:  Postdoctoral Minerva Fellow TU Munich &  Max-Planck-Institu  Quantum Optics, Garching & Department of Chemistry, University of Austin, Texas

April 1975: Senior Scientist,  Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot

October 1975: Senior Lecturer, Theoretical Chemistry, Hebrew University (HU)

October 1978: Associate Professor, HU

October 1980-82: Visiting Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, UCLA

October 1984: Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, HU

Fall 1985: Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, UCLA

Summer 1989: Fellow, Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB

April - October 1995: Ludwig Schaffer Scholar, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, NY.

Summer 1998: Fellow, Institute of Theoretical Physics, UCSB

April - October 2003: Visiting Scholar, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, NY.

October 2004 -  : Archie and Marjorie Sherman Chair in Theoretical Chemistry

 

Book: A. Ben-Shaul, Y. Haas, K.L. Kompa and R.D. Levine

            Lasers and Chemical Change (Springer Verlag, 1981, 497 pp., 245 figs).

Edited Book: W.M. Gelbart, A. Ben-Shaul and D. Roux (editors),

            Micelles, Microemulsions, Membranes and Monolayers (Springer, New York 1994) 608 pp., 208 figurs.

About 160 scientific publications.

2007  -    Landau Prize: Physics of Membranes, Polymers and Biomaterials.